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Author : Cowan, W.R.
Date : 1968
Title : Notes on a sinuous till-cored ridge, south-east of Schefferville
Publication : Cahiers de Geographie du Quebec
Issue : 12(26):
Page(s) : 291-294



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Abstract

This feature was described earlier (Cowan, 1966) and called a till-cored esker-likeridge. The author now believes that it should not be called esker-like. It is 8-10 feet high, with a symmetrical profile, and extends for about a mile. Three pits were dug and the till fabric analyzed. Mean orientation data indicate that fabrics resulted from forces having vector components both parallel to direction of glaciation and normal to the ridge. It is suggested that the ridge is the result of a squeezing of ground moraine into a subglacial tunnel.

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Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology